Groove Neuter’s blog

Note to Self: Don't Hold Breath

2008-08-20T23:35:37Z

The In-Laws just landed and will be with us for 7 days. Must remember to breathe... It's good for the kids... Breathe... Inhale... hold it, hold it... cough, cough, cough, slowly exhale.

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State of the Groove

2008-08-08T00:08:34Z

I find myself in the unlikeliest of predicaments. I do not want to tell my friends how great parenting can be, for fear that their experience will not be so swell and make them feel lesser. I do not want to tell my friends how awful parenting ca...

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Tapping, Hammering-on, Pulling-off as done by John Frusciante

2008-07-28T15:17:51Z

For my next little guitar noodling self-lesson, "Don't Forget Me" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers The girls love the Youtube video for Anthony and John freaking out and spinning. I dig the non-speed metal application of hammering-on and pulling-off...

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Original Recipe?

2008-07-10T00:03:43Z

My 4 and 2 year-olds can now navigate youtube to go from video to video... of BUCKETHEAD! He is their absolute favorite and they run around in a circle screeching, "It's buckethead! He's silly cuz he has a bucket on his head! He's playing guita...

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Freakin' exhausted

2008-05-15T18:02:24Z

The wife had Intralase Lasik last Friday. I was freaked out. Turned out fine. Youngest daughter winged a ball at wife's face the next day. I freaked out. Missed the eyes, turned out fine. She can read the 20/20 eye chart line. Eldest daughter...

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both sides of the fence

2008-03-29T19:29:42Z

So, the house next door sold, and out moved a family with kids about our kids ages. In moved renters, with a dog, staked outside 24/7, who barks and growls every time we go outside. His tie-out extends all the way to the property line, which he ...

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Pineapple-Dapple Twister

2008-02-06T19:11:15Z

Inspired by the tornadoes sweeping around us last night, I put two shots of vodka into six shots pineapple juice and diced up a quarter of an Granny Smith apple that the daughters hadn't finished eating with their dinner. If you don't have dau...

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Playing dress-up

2008-01-25T18:09:02Z

...with cookies that is. My 21 month and almost 4 year old daughters had a blast creating in the kitchen. We began with vanilla wafer cookies, which we decorated with half cream cheese frosting, and half strawberry frosting, then marshmallow pi...

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Spectrum

2008-01-17T19:01:33Z

Yesterday for lunch, the kids and I shared a Brie cheese wheel, sliced up on crackers, accompanied by apple slices. Their milk, in crystal goblets. Very continental. Today, we had fried chicken. Their milk cuppies snug in their NASCAR cozies.

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Saving Anything?

2008-01-10T19:06:36Z

Just after Christmas, when the visiting in-law grandparents were safely stuffed back on an airplane, my 3 3/4 year old decided she wanted to learn to read. It has been an explosion of knowledge. I am not keeping track of a word list that she can...

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